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The London Review of Books

The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas, hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, and featuring our fortnightly 'On Politics' podcast hosted by James Butler. From the LRB Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subslrbpod Close Readings podcast: ⁠https://lrb.me/crlrbpod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠https://lrb.me/storelrbpod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk

#420

On Politics: Inside Britain’s Asylum System

The politics of migration have driven some of the most consequential changes in Britain’s ... more

10 Dec 2025

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:52

10 Dec 2025

#419

The Life and Death of a Photographer in Gaza

Fatma Hassona was a Palestinian photographer from Gaza City who was killed with her family... more

03 Dec 2025

53 MINS

53:45

03 Dec 2025

#418

Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London

We’re pleased to announce our four new Close Readings series starting in January next year... more

29 Nov 2025

16 MINS

16:41

29 Nov 2025

#417

On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC

The BBC is in crisis, again. A leaked dossier alleging a lack of impartiality in its repor... more

26 Nov 2025

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:48

26 Nov 2025

#416

Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us

In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what wo... more

21 Nov 2025

44 MINS

44:54

21 Nov 2025

#415

Where does our waste go?

Since the 1980s, Brett Christophers wrote recently in the LRB, ‘firms have made vast amoun... more

19 Nov 2025

57 MINS

57:10

19 Nov 2025

#414

Introducing ‘Aftershock: The War on Terror’

After 9/11, George W. Bush launched a global War on Terror. What followed was an unprecede... more

15 Nov 2025

03 MINS

03:57

15 Nov 2025

#413

On Politics: Latin America’s Right-Wing Shift

At the end of the 20th century and across the first decade of the 21st, a swathe of countr... more

12 Nov 2025

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:32

12 Nov 2025

#412

Pollution and Other Serial Killers

Between the 1960s and the turn of the century, an astonishingly large number of serial kil... more

05 Nov 2025

38 MINS

38:14

05 Nov 2025

#411

On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?

Andy Burnham recently said that the government is ‘in hock to the bond markets’, and the p... more

29 Oct 2025

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:30

29 Oct 2025

#410

Extinction, Fast and Slow

One of the difficulties in thinking about extinction, as Lorraine Daston argued in her rec... more

22 Oct 2025

38 MINS

38:45

22 Oct 2025

#409

On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)

For the best part of a decade, a new type of anti-systemic, nationalist politics has been ... more

15 Oct 2025

1 HR 15 MINS

1:15:00

15 Oct 2025

#408

Lessons from the Peace Process

Adam is joined by Robert Malley to discuss the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the... more

10 Oct 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:48

10 Oct 2025

#407

Why should we listen to Amanda Knox?

It's nearly eighteen years since Amanda Knox was arrested on suspicion of murdering her ho... more

08 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:48

08 Oct 2025

#406

On Politics: The Death of the Conservative Party?

In its nearly two hundred years of existence the Conservative Party has survived through a... more

01 Oct 2025

55 MINS

55:22

01 Oct 2025

#405

How to Write Like Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard ‘did more with less than any crime writer I can think of’ J. Robert Lennon ... more

24 Sep 2025

42 MINS

42:15

24 Sep 2025

#404

On Politics: Labour's Problems

When Keir Starmer brought Labour back to government last year with a majority of 174, many... more

17 Sep 2025

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:07

17 Sep 2025

#403

Selling the Manosphere

The manosphere, Emily Witt writes in a recent piece for the LRB, is the ‘online network of... more

10 Sep 2025

39 MINS

39:59

10 Sep 2025

#402

The Debt to David Graeber

When David Graeber died in 2020, at the age of 59, he left not only a substantial body of ... more

03 Sep 2025

59 MINS

59:53